What does Shakespeare have to say about Leadership and Analytics?
What does Shakespeare have to say to data & analytics leaders today? Reflections on lessons from his plays for data leaders from Tony Boobier.
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May 7, 2021
Humanise your automation to ensure a positive employee experience
CX author Annette Franz shares why you should humanise your automation to ensure positive customer & employee experiences, not just processes.
Is your focus on prediction weakening your Data Science work?
Is today’s focus on prediction, rather than explanatory models, weakening the commercial impact of data teams? A challenge from Harry Powell.
How to lead organisations through Adaptive Change
Film-maker & leadership coach, Ty Francis, shares his experience of how to lead organisations through adaptive change or wicked problems.
You might be wasting your time with clustering for segmentation
Prof Nick Radcliffe makes the case for why clustering your customers is a bad idea that wastes analysts time & delivers suboptimal marketing.
Leader, how well do you behave when being presented to?
Harry Powell tackles the critical issue of how leaders behave when being presented to. Improve your behaviour with his half-third-sixth model
The power of a data thinking mindset to transform your software projects
Chief Data Scientist, Richard Pugh, explains how data thinking & design thinking can improve on the popular software-first project approach.
Adopting a healthy scepticism of thinking fast with data
Tony Boobier shares lessons from “Thinking Fast & Slow” for the challenge of what mindset is needed by analysts & those interpreting data.
1 billion gallons of water & remembering a sense of scale
Prof Nick Radcliffe debunks a claim about Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Pool & thus shows us how to develop a sense of scale for some big numbers.
How to measure the ROI of your Analytics team: Part 2 = incremental profit
Harry Powell, Director of Data & Analytics at JLR explains how he calculates the incremental profit his team generates down to an income line
How to measure the ROI of your Analytics team: Part 1 = Profit
Why you Analytics team needs a measure of their ROI. Harry Powell argues for the benefits of profit as the best metric of the value-added.
How can you make the journey from Practitioner to Master?
Are you a novice, explorer, practitioner, expert or master? Do you want to journey on to becoming a Master of your craft? Here’s how you can.